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sQUIZ your knowledge! A recurrent bleeding growth on the leg Volume 29, issue 6, November-December 2019

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Departement of Dermatology, Farhat Hached University hospital, Sousse, Tunisia

A healthy 55-year-old patient presented with a two-month history of a protuberant recurrent bleeding growth on his right leg. Clinical examination revealed a solitary well circumscribed nodule of 2 cm diameter. The tumour showed a pedunculated, polypoid-like silhouette and was covered by thickened epidermis forming multiple fibrous septae crossing an inflammatory nodule (figure 1A). Some angiomatous papules were noted around the lesion. The tumour appearance was suggestive of pyogenic granuloma. [...]